The 2nd Borsa İstanbul Finance & Economics Conference will take place on 1-2 October, 2015 in İstanbul. The conference theme is "A New Era in Capital Markets" and it will cover a wide range of topics related to entrepreneurial finance, market microstructure and international finance. The Conference aims at bringing together researchers, practitioners and policy makers working on these issues to discuss theoretical and empirical findings, to explore recent advances in these fields and to exchange ideas. The main topics of the Conference will be entrepreneurial finance, market microstructure and international finance which includes (but is not limited to) theoretical, empirical, and experimental analyses of: funding alternatives, private equity, venture capital, SME financing, angel investors, financial restructuring, comparison of transactions costs, the role of regulation on securities market, listing and trading securities in international markets, high-frequency trading, alternative trading venues, dark pools, trading technology and information systems, practical implications of market design, market efficiency and fragmented markets, market liquidity, role of liquidity in financial crises, the effects of unconventional monetary policies on financial market, international spillovers, linkages between emerging and advanced economies, financial engineering.